Sep 25, 2019
You've gotten everyone excited about your new initiative. Everyone's bought in. And... here come the naysayers with objection after objection taking all the wind out of your sails. Normally, we try to avoid or shut down the naysayers. But, avoiding or defending yourself against objections will actually make things worse...
Sep 18, 2019
Have you ever introduced a new initiative to your staff only to have it fall flat? Or worse, have you ever tried to get your teachers excited about a new program and met push-back and resistance before you could even get the project started? Getting people truly excited and invested in a new initiative is not as simply...
Sep 11, 2019
Initiative fatigue is real and it’s wearing out your staff. It starts when we feel pain, and we look for a solution -- ANY solution -- to alleviate our pain. Only, when it doesn’t work, we grab another one, and another one, and another one. The problem isn’t that we need a better solution, the problem is that we...
Sep 4, 2019
Sometimes when you are working to help teachers improve, it can feel like for every step you take forward, you take two steps back. You try to give teachers good feedback, you provide great professional development and coaching, but sometimes, teachers still don’t improve. When teachers aren’t performing,...